Senior DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps engineer at Level Data, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining infrastructure to support service delivery across multiple stacks. You will work closely with several teams, including Software Engineering and Security, to provide a stable and secure hosting stack for some of the best-loved software services in the K-12 Education market.

Your day-to-day duties will include working with several cloud environments, including AWS and Azure, as well as datacenter environments. You will be expected to utilize modern technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) and to be flexible in finding solutions across a variety of environments. This will involve both supporting customer-facing production environments, as well as internal tooling to be used by technical teams.

This is a senior-level position requiring independent ownership of complex systems and initiatives. The role demands strong problem-solving skills, technical leadership, and the ability to guide architectural decisions while partnering closely with Software Engineering teams to ensure consistent and high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Architecture & Ownership: Architect, design, and lead the implementation of scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure across production, QA, and development environments. Own infrastructure strategy across the full software lifecycle and influence platform standards.

• CI/CD Platform Leadership: Design, optimize, and govern enterprise-grade CI/CD platforms using tools such as Flux CD, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. Establish pipeline standards, security controls, and release strategies while mentoring others on best practices.

• Advanced Automation & Platform Engineering: Lead development of reusable automation frameworks and internal platforms using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages. Drive reduction of manual effort and enable self-service for development teams.

• Observability, Reliability & Incident Leadership: Define and evolve monitoring, logging, telemetry, and alerting strategies. Lead root-cause analysis for complex incidents, improve system reliability, and establish SLOs/SLIs and operational runbooks.

• Cross-Team Technical Leadership: Act as a technical authority and trusted advisor to engineering, security, and operations teams. Drive architectural decisions, review designs, and mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers.

• Security, Compliance & Risk Management: Embed security and compliance controls into infrastructure and pipelines (DevSecOps). Partner with security teams to implement guardrails, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and audit readiness.

• Cloud Strategy & Cost Optimization: Lead cloud architecture decisions across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, identity, scalability, and cost optimization (FinOps).

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field.

• Experience in managing and troubleshooting complex Linux and Windows environments.

• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g. git).

• Containerization and Orchestration: Advanced, hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container management and orchestration.

• Strong architectural experience with cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Extensive experience using IaC tools like Terraform.

• Certifications in relevant cloud technologies (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Solutions Expert, CKAD, CKA) are a plus.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. All positions are required to complete a pre-employment drug screen and background check.